{"nrhp_refnum":"66000063","name":"Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2 mi. W of Marietta","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":33.949857710500055,"lon":-84.59361482888389,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A federally owned Civil War battlefield district on a crescent-shaped ridge at the western edge of Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, preserving earthworks, a log house and monuments from the 1864 Kennesaw Mountain fighting.","why_significant":"The park preserves the site of the June 1864 Kennesaw Line fighting during the Atlanta Campaign, after which the Confederates lost the last major obstacle protecting Atlanta. It holds about 11 miles of Union and Confederate earthworks described as outstanding 19th-century military engineering. It also keeps the Kolb House, typical of early 19th-century pioneer architecture, and early 20th-century monuments.","narrative":"Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park occupies a crescent-shaped ridge on the western edge of Marietta, Georgia, where Union and Confederate armies clashed in June 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces held a ten-mile line here from June 18, and Sherman's major assault on June 27 failed, though his flanking moves forced the Confederates to abandon the line on July 2. Casualties numbered about 5,500. With the loss of Kennesaw, the last major geographic barrier shielding Atlanta was gone, and the city fell on September 1. The park preserves roughly 11 miles of earthworks, including rifle pits, trenches and gun emplacements, with the best examples near Strahl's Fort. It also protects the Kolb House, a hewn-log dwelling built in 1836 that served as General Hooker's headquarters, and monuments such as the Illinois Monument of 1914 at Cheatham Hill. Congress established the park in 1935.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Kolb House built by Peter Valentine Kolb and a Cherokee Indian in 1836","architectural_style":"Civil War earthworks; Early Republic: Federal; Modern Movement: Modernistic","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Public park in good condition, with preserved earthworks and monuments; the Kolb House was restored externally in 1963 and is used as employee quarters; the Gilbert House was in poor repair in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.686365-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/66000063.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000063/1f10e75064-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000063/1f10e75064-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Mikereichold","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennesaw_mountain_cannon01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikereichold</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennesaw_mountain_cannon01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207587","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_Mountain_National_Battlefield_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389745"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/kennesaw-mountain-national-battlefield-park-66000063/"}